Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Again, talks with Chou. The visit to the Great Wall. For Americans, the Great Wall is the wonder that is worth the journey. Richard Nixon finds it so today as he walks along the ramparts on a sun-filled morning freshened by the remains of a snowfall. Nixon brings no cavalry with lances and banners. Instead he carries his electronic entourage; television cameras, soundmen and still photographers record his every move along the winding, massive fortification that was first linked together in the third century B.C. and today stretches 1,684 miles across China...
...world, the wall has a vitality of architectural rhythm that gives it a sense of endless movement. It seems to be a slow-moving dragon, the bricks its scales, undulating in the sunlight. Even Richard Nixon's banal description of its might fails to mute the wonder of the morning. "A people that can build a wall like this certainly have a great past to be proud of," he says, "and a people who have this kind of a past must also have a great future...
...armory isn't full, but that's O.K. New Hampshire people take their weather seriously--it's a wonder any of them came at all. Anyway, they are packed around the stage: the little kids are sitting on the floor, the Nixonettes in white sweaters and blue skirts stand rank and file against the wall. The press sits by itself like an offended assembly of bored Episcopalians...
...never knew there were so many buildings. Lord, I never knew what a street was, not really, not streets like we have up here, not miles and miles of them," says a black sharecropper from Mississippi. And a little white girl from Kentucky marvels at street lights: "I wonder how the moon feels? If I were the moon, I'd make a face at all the lamps on the streets...
...action at such a pitch of intensity that the films seemed to gain substance from sheer force. This technique, which amounts to a diversionary tactic, becomes transparent in The Visitors. Kazan raises a lot of significant issues, then exploits them without truly engaging them. The Visitors makes one wonder, in fact, if he ever really has engaged them. ∙Jay Cocks It is no surprise to find another Kazan in show business. The only surprise about Chris Kazan is that he came to it so late. After all, his father is a famous director and his mother Molly, who died...